The Stamps of Life - Happy Birthday Step-Up

Today I have a birthday card to show you using one of the new dies from The Stamps of Life called Happy Birthday Step-Ups from Sizzix. I love this die set because it makes this card so easy to cut and assemble.

I personalized the card by stamping letters onto the banner pieces included in the set using the crayonletters2stamp stamp set.

Products Used:
Stamp Set - crayonletters2stamp
Ink - Licorice
Paper - Creme Brulee, Lagoon, CTMH Dotty for You, Vellum
Happy Birthday Step-Up Die Set, adhesive gems, jute twine

Walking in a Winter Wonderland...

Yesterday, I showed you one of the silhouette cards I made using PTI's In the Meadow stamp set.  Here is the second one.

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This time I cut three trees from the Love Lives Here: Holiday die collection and I used one of the Spellbinders impressabilities plates.  I stamped the sentiment after I ran it through the cuttlebug for this card.  I also used a different type of glitter on the snow drifts but I think I like the chunky glitter better.  Again, I popped up the top layer of "snow" and tucked one of the trees in between the two drifts.

These cards are really putting me in the holiday mood.  How about you?  Are you busy making holiday cards yet?


Products Used:
Stamp Sets - PTI In the Meadow
Paper - PTI SS White, True Black and Enchanted Evening; Vellum
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
PTI In the Meadow die and Silhouettes; Love Lives Here: Holiday die
Impessabilities plate
Glitter flakes

Dashing Through the Snow...

In the Meadow is not a set that I had even a remote intention of getting, but lying awake one night, I saw this card in my head and that was it....I was done.

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This is such a fun set to play with and I am really liking the silhouette cards that can be created with it.  For this one, I first stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum and then ran it through my cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder to mimic snow.  I added chunky glitter to the tops of snowdrifts and cut out my silhouette pieces using the coordinating dies and some True Black cardstock.  Then it was super simple to assemble.

I'll have another one of these for you tomorrow if you'd care to check back.  In the meantime, have a fabulous day!

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - PTI In the Meadow
Paper - PTI SS White, True Black and Enchanted Evening; Vellum
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
PTI In the Meadow die and Silhouettes
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Chunky Glitter